Who's The Top?

Radio Record, 5 June 1936, Page 50

Who's The Top?

"Organ Lover" (Mosgiel) writes ;-~ "On reading ‘Wurlitzer Wizard's’ remarks regarding Wurlitzer organists and their capabilities, I feel compelled to reply. In my opinion, Jesse Crawford’s. playing lacks very much in variety, considering the stops at his disposal. ‘Wurlitzer Wizard’ is-rather sweeping in his remarks when he says that Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Crawford have set a standard of organ-playing which leaves all others far behind. [ do not think that, as a combination, they are anything eut of the ordinary. "When one considers the Wurlitzer and: cinema organ talent now available on gramophone records, I believe that the honours in this type of music certainly and assuredly belong to English organists, J might mention at least two of

them, Sydney Torch and Reginald King, who, of late, have shown us that they are indeed artists. of the first order at the console, | "If it interests ‘Wurlitzer Wizard,’ I would be pleased to supply him with the name and number of a certain record showing him, if he has an ‘ear for music,’ that one can make mistakes, either playing or singing at the organ." :